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ICL researchers develop new membrane-based system for cheap, efficiently made biofuels

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—Professor Andrew Livingston of Imperial’s Department of Chemical Engineering. Biofuels can be produced by fermenting waste biomass and recovering the fuel from the fermented solution using an extractant. —Co-author Dr Ji Hoon Kim, also of the Department of Chemical Engineering. Bolton, Young Moo Lee and Andrew G.

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

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I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. We only drove ’normal’ ICE (Internal Combustion Engine) cars before but those gave me a feeling of always being in a hurry. The gasoline engine only runs in reversing to power the batteries.

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Chalmers team identifies two main challenges for bio-hydrocarbon fuel production from cheap sources

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Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have identified two main challenges for renewable biofuel production from cheap sources: lowering the cost of developing microbial cell factories; and establishing more efficient methods for hydrolysis of biomass to sugars for fermentation.

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UC Davis process produces gasoline-range hydrocarbons from biomass-derived levulinic acid; field-to-tank yield of >60% claimed

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A paper on their work is published in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition ; UC Davis has filed provisional patents on the process, and is making it available for licensing. Biodiesel, refined from plant-based oils, is already commercially available to run modified diesel engines. barrels of oil (117.6 gallons US).

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Non-bike bike gear tested: Foldylock Forever is the most secure folding lock, period.

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Someone will eventually mention Lockpicking Lawyer and say you’re all wasting your time. But as someone who both rides e-bikes as a daily form of transportation and also has a mechanical engineering degree tucked away in his back pocket for occasional use, hopefully I can shed a little more light on the subject.

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Researchers produce high density renewable fuels from terpenes; potential use as significant components of jet, diesel and tactical fuels

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Mixtures were used for lighting and for early internal combustion engines. An elegant route toward the development of saturated hydrocarbon fuels based on terpene feedstocks may lie in a biosynthetic approach in which engineered organisms convert cellulose and/or hemicellulose derived sugar solutions into pure terpene products.

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MIT professor pursuing direct sulfide electrolysis for copper production

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In a presentation for the Copper International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in December 2013, Allanore noted the proof of concept for producing copper and sulfur by electrodecomposition of copper sulfide, achieved by T.P. —Antoine Allanore. The idea for direct sulfide electrolysis dates to as early as 1906. 2013.04.095.

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